Senior Financial Administration Specialist: Budgets at National Treasury

Qualification/s Requirements

• A Grade 12 is required coupled with a minimum National Diploma (equivalent to NQF level 6) or a Bachelor’s degree (equivalent to NQF level 7) any of the following disciplines: Accounting or Cost & Management Accounting, or Financial Management or Internal Audit or Business Management or Economics and Finance;
• A minimum 3 years’ experience obtained in budgets management, management accounting and financial management operational; and
• Knowledge of BAS or/and other relevant government financial systems.?

Key Performance Areas

Annual Financial Statement:

• Assist with the compilation and preparation of the quarterly interim and annual financial statements of the department;
• Configure applications in alignment with technical and business requirements;
• Prepare various financial statements and reports for management and submit to the Auditor-General; and
• Coordinate regulatory audit processes with internal and external Auditors.

Departmental Annual Budget: 

• Monitor exception reports and review the departmental budget on the basic accounting system (BAS);
• Provide budget information in the required format; and
• Review the shifting funds within economic classifications and between programmes.

Consolidate Budgetary Inputs: 

• Assist in coordinating and submission on an annual basis, Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF), Adjustment Estimates (AE), Estimates of National Expenditure (ENE), Drawings, Rollovers, entertainment, catering, and gifts. ?

Develop, Implement Budgeting Systems: 

• Monitor budget implementation progress and identify variances against the budget;
• Prepare reports on performances and variances analysis for programmes; and
• Consolidate reports and advice and caution on the risks of possible over / under-spending?.

Compliance with Public Finance Management Act, 1999, Treasury Regulations and Modified Cash Standard: 

• Co-ordinate, consolidate and compile management reports;
• Perform budget cycle within the parameters of the applicable legislation and project plans;
• Assist with strategic and operational financial matters in compliance with the required regulations; and
• Prepare financial statements within the parameters of the applicable legislation, where applicable?.

Assist with strategic and operational inputs into financial matters: 

• Assist with strategic and operational inputs into financial matters pertaining to reports, notices and other information submitted to the Executive Authority, National Treasury and Auditor-General, as stipulated by the PFMA.